I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING

I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.

This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

As long as it still hurts, it isn’t love yet.

Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair.

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.

Your dream will not become a reality until you shift from Very Important to an Emergency!

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.