“It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”

“Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.”

“I write fantasy. The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451.”

“Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.”

“The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.”

“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know”

“I hate writing, I love having written.”

“A revolutionary war against a modern metropolitan state can only be fought in hell.”