People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.
Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.
Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.
In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.
Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.