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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.

Water is my drink.

You can't write if you don't read.

Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when the waves are lousy. That's what I'm always telling myself, anyway - write while the surf's down!

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.