You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

I'm very comfortable writing.