Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Art is not in some far-off place.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

Jericho Barrons was my poison now.

I might not be perfect, but I feel perfect. I think that's all that matters.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.