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I haven't got a writer's discipline.

The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

You know what you are best at, and writing is just not my thing, but I like it.

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.