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I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of “eternity”; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

My hand does the work and I don’t have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It’s like a dam in the brain that bursts.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.