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I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.
No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.
A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.
Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.
Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.
Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.
























