“I hate writing, I love having written.”

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.”

“I hate the way he writes. I kind of love the way he lives, though.”

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

“Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

“I don't like modules. It's a sort of love/hate relationship. The problem with modules is the classification problem. When you have written a function you don't know in what modules you put it in.”

“I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.”

“All my life I have been a pacifist. All my life I have hated war and loved peace. I have contributed to peace societies, written for peace, spoken for peace, paraded for peace. But today I seriously question whether our ways of seeking peace are not playing directly into the hands of those who love war and intend to pursue it.”

“I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing — I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn’t really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project — it’s an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.”

“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”