I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

That I talk about that doesn't mean anything, that my name is like this doesn't mean anything... that I watch this and listen to this doesn't mean anything - Meaning of All By DeYth Banger

What we are now, we continue to be.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.

Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.