“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.”
“I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.”
“If I ever find a dead horse, I'm going to beat the fucking shit out of it.”
“If I ever find a dead horse, I am going to beat the fucking shit out of it.”
“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.”
“Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.”