If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.
If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.
The story sometimes writes you into a corner.
I actually do believe in life after death.
I sometimes imagine a great writer as a sort of God-surrogate: the writer is doing his or her human-best to emulate what God might think of is, if God was inclined to observe some human beings and present their activities in the form of a narrative.
While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.