"I've never sat down and thought about..." - Quote by Len Wein

“I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.”

“Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.”

“What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.”

“Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?”

“When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.”

“I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.”

“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”

“["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.”

“Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world”