“Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.”
“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself”
“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.”
“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”
“Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.”
“They don't let people see what I write because I write what I see”