"I am a very simple person. I like to eat, sleep, and write."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"The best thing to do with a bad book is to burn it."

"The only thing worse than a bad book is a good book that you can't read."

"My mind is a muddle. I can't write a coherent sentence. I'm going to go eat a cookie."