The trouble with most people is they think there's only one right way to do anything.
What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.
Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it.
I believe that every human being has mental challenges.
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.