Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
Only a genius can play a fool.