“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”

“I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.”

“Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.”

“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target”

“I don’t need to be motivated to write; it’s always there waiting to get out. Published or not.”

“In pursuing the wraith that was Paul Curtis, I more than ever was aware that what lives after a shooting man is what has been published of his writings. Memories of the man grow dim and not too rarely become confused […] almost but not quite capturing for me a presence that surfaced like a zither theme in a suspense movie.”

“The book to end all books. The final book. After this, there is no more writing, no more publishing.”

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”

“Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.”

“We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or to describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.”