“Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.”
“It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.”
“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.”
“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”
“I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book.”
“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.”