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I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.