Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.