Planning To Write Is Not Writing.

The Music Of The Stones Pounds The Air Like The Amplified Pulse Of My Erection.

The Shadow Had No Imagination. He Neither Looked At Naked Women Nor Thought Of Ridding The World Of Dictators Like Hitler Or Mussolini.

A Novelist Is A Person Who Lives In Other People's Skins.

I Lived In New York For A Couple Months. It Seemed To Me At First An Incredibly Clean Place With Well-dressed People And Washed Cars And Bright-painted Red-and-yellow Streetcars And White Buildings.

There Is Really No Fiction Or Non-fiction; There Is Only Narrative. One Mode Of Perception Has No Greater Claim On The Truth Than The Other; That The Distance Has Perhaps To Do With Distance - Narrative Distance - From The Characters; It Has To Do With The Kind Of Voice That Is Talking, But It Certainly Hasn't To Do With The Common Distribution Between Fact And Imagination.