The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at the simple pleasure of human contact and for the first time in a long time i actually feel good." (James Frey, pg.38)

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.