My best work is always done. . . when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.
Inspiration is an empty bank account.
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.
I'm not exactly repulsive.
It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.