The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.

I soon learned that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must write write write.

It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of …

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love le…