To read is to resist; to write is to rebel.

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed.

The writer's secret is not inspiration—for it is never clear where it comes from—but stubbornness, endurance.

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.