“You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.”
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
“This didn't seem to have anything to do with Old Narnia, which was what Caspian really wanted to hear about, but getting up in the middle of the night is always interesting and he was moderately pleased.”
“You have to write about what keeps you up at night.”
“Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.”
“The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.”