I’d much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer’s block, as if it was some kind of illness.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
I feel as if I’m clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously – and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
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