The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.'Sure,' I said. 'I'd believe anything. Including nightmares.' 'What's the matter? Feel low?'Low as hell.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.