Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.