I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.

Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don't be afraid of getting lost!

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.