I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.
Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.