It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.