I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.

If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows?It's bad day in bad time, I can tell this for sure!

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.

Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

When you hate the thing that you're working on, that's when you question it.

Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations