As long as I don't write about the government religion politics and other institutions I am free to print anything.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers only minor ones.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having but it would not be a good song in my eyes until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song it's just complaining.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

People write negatives things cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them doesn't sell.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.