“Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.”

“[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!”

“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.”

“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”

“But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”

“Do you have the poems of Han-shan in your house?
They're better for you than sutra reading!
Write them out and paste them on a screen
Where you can glance over them from time to time”

“You cannot write for children… They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.”

“…Who better than a Latin American to write about dirty tricks and other stories.”

“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”

“People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?”