We need to use antitrust laws. You know, we need to create real media again.
You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.
I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.
Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.
So whatever you want to do, just do it. . . Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.
Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.
When I would get close on a part but wouldn't get it, I would be like, "They made a mistake," which is not how I think about things now. I both admire it and I'm grateful for the modicum of health, knowledge, and humility that I have acquired over the last 10 or 15 years.