Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.

Less is more.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.

I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough

The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

Sage.” He laughed. “I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.