It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.