If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I we….

It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most writers as well, it's like r….

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan..

Writing is not primarily escape, but use..

Writing is a political instrument..

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from..

Thought is borne of failure..

Nobody can ever take Michael Jackson's place, it's only one Michael..

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind..

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life..

The characters write the plot. Their natures do..

Nobody ever sees me. Thank you..

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to….

I don't read books, I write them..

Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our con….

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse..

You're a sum of all your experiences..

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose..

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs..

By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph..

Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write..