The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.