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I’m not entangled in shaping my work according to other people’s views of how I should have done it.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then… it’s sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that’s fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.