You need to remember that what you're dealing with here is the ideas I had when I was 16 that I'm putting in my fiction now.

If you write like James Joyce, you will have an audience of twenty. The other nineteen - besides your mother, because your father won't read it - will only be …

Tell the story plainly and clearly.

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know wh…

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.