In Literature, only trouble is interesting.

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.

What is the pattern of change?

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

Have Fun Storming the Castle!

Neurons are built to better remember the incompleted, the unfinished, the uninvited & the unwanted!

People reveal as much by their silence as they do by what they say.

... Hoping like hell she was wrong about Dominic, and he was just a secretive man with a strange skin disorder.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.