I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day..

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know..

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit..

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It j….

I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H.R.]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman and all the rest of t….

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion..

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write..

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that doe….

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past..

This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted t….

All the Dachaus must remain standing..

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive..

Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it ….

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that….

This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far ….

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are..

This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, bec….

You know, writer can write about the Foreign Legion without ever having been in the Foreign Legion, but that doesn't necessarily mean that what he's ….

I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the f….

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piec….

Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his pi….