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I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction and fan fiction writers are, and then the Internet gets all upset and shocked, and then the author is shocked that people could get so upset.

It's that drama that drives authors, you know.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.