The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Facts are lonely things
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer. . . . . that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.
Theres a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.
In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.