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It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

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

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.