Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Most of my short stories are fantasy.
First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
All of my writing is God-given.
Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
I have fun with ideas; I play with them.
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?
Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
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.