Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.
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