 Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. |
| There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. |
| So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them. |
| Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. |
| Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. |
| You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. |
| I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out. |
| It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. |
| The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. |
| I think of myself as a very lazy author. |
| I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area. |
| I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. |
| I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do. |
| As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. |
