Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.
One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it. . . . The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.
You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.
The difference in the profit and loss is usually. . . do not quit.
I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.