Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Most of my short stories are fantasy. "

Related Quotes:

" I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. "

" I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. "

" My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. "

" I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. "

" Facts are not interesting to me. "

" Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. "

" I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. "

" You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time. "

" Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me. "

" You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. "

" If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do. "

" If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself. "

" I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? "

" Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her. "

" All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not. "

" In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. "

" I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating. "

" Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it. "

" I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work. "

" I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. "

" Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. "

" I don't do research. I never have. "

" I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention. "

" Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. "

" I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great. "

" Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. "

" The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness. "

" If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz. "

" We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. "

" All of my writing is God-given. "