Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

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It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.