...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

I'm falling into disrepair

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.