All good ideas arrive by chance.

"Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever."

"People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions. Bob Shaw has observed that the deadliest questions usually come as a pair: ""Have you published anything?"" – loosely translated as: I've never heard of you – and ""What name do you write under?"" – loosely translatable as: I've definitely never heard of you."

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.