Time Is The Only Critic.

You Usually Can Tell When A Writer Is Going Down Hill By The Size Of His Liquor Bill.

Love, When You Get Fear In It, It's Not Love Any More. It's Hate.

Writing A Novel Is Like Working On Foreign Policy. There Are Problems To Be Solved. It's Not All Inspirational.

You Have To Wait For Your Mind To Catch Up With Whatever It Is It’s Working On; Then You Can Write A Novel.

If You Can't Write Like New York, You Have No Business Living In New York And Making New York The Locale Of Your Stories.