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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence – a lot passes you by – simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.