If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

[T]o hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.

Yahoo called me eight weeks ago. They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? "To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet."

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

To hell with you and your poetry — You will rot and be blown
through the next solar system
with the rest of the gases —

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.

I loathe writing autobiographical material because if it's dull no-one should have to read it anyway, and if it's interesting I should be using it for a story.