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’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.

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.

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

When you meet a person as good-hearted as a child, don't ever be selfish, just give them your best and you will become great friends.

Never stop reminding yourself that God created you to be mentally and physically tougher than your struggles, challenges and obstacles.

It felt good to be the one holding the blade

Darlin', you are all female but not in the least little bit weak.

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.

I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.