When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.