I Try To Avoid Experience

There Is Music In Words, And It Can Be Heard You Know, By Thinking.

Planning To Write Is Not Writing. Outlining, Researching, Talking To People About What You're Doing, None Of That Is Writing. Writing Is Writing.

One Of The Things I Had To Learn As A Writer Was To Trust The Act Of Writing. To Put Myself In The Position Of Writing To Find Out What I Was Writing. I Did That With 'world's Fair' As With All Of Them. The Inventions Of The Book Come As Discoveries.

The Images Of Things Are Not The Things In Themselves.

Satire's Nature Is To Be One-sided, Contemptuous Of Ambiguity, And So Unfairly Selective As To Find In The Purity Of Ridicule An Inarguable Moral Truth.