“It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.”
“Chemical reactions weren't supposed to write letters.”
“I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible.”
“It’s hard enough to write a good drama, it’s much harder to write a good comedy, and it’s hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.”
“If you write about the present it is very much more difficult to make things sound convincing. But writing about the past means that you are writing about a situation in which you know at least as much as anyone else.”
“Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.”