“Writers sometimes cast themselves into the most profound depths of despair in order to master it and move on.”

“Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.”

“You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”

“Sinclair Lewis was a crypto-sentimentalist and a slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader.”

“You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.”

“I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place”

“The field is fought—who walketh there?—
The shadow victory casts—Despair!”

“I write worstsellers. I guess most of my readers are themselves writers. Myself, for example.”

“The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is.”

“Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow.”