Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.

Man as a thief cannot enjoy life he can only steal, kill and destroy harmony of society.

Choose a good attitude and that is the key to making great impacts! Never be fooled to follow the wrong direction

Maybe it shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.

Somebody thinking that they can make noise intimidate me is comical.

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

You get burned a lot as an actor. You give somebody, you give some guy real free reign and he just doesn't know how to edit it properly. It just comes out messed up.

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.