I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.-

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.(It)

I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, bu…

Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

The greatest of superficial novelists... It were, in our opinion, an offense against humanity to place Mr Dickens among the greatest novelists.