Silence creates it's own violence.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing’s quality and your productivity.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything around you. Sometimes, in fact, it seems as if the human world runs on inefficiency and erratic behavior.