You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alie….

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's publi….

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary..

In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who wor….

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself..

When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to a billion. What is truly remarkable is….

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first..

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for….

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost,….

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor..

It's necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty..

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, ….

My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just….

I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up..

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man..

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book..

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowl….

I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply ….

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously..

You have no beginning of time. It's always been there..

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff..