"I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Witho..."
- Harlan Ellison
"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."
"It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with seriou..."
"Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear thing..."
"When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing ..."
"Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit."
"Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the..."
"Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself."
"Who wants a library full of books you've already read?"
"A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur."