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I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.