Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.

A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.