Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.