Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment! When can I see you?” “Certainly not until you finish An Imperial Affliction.” I enjoyed being coy. “Then I’d better hang up and start reading.” “You’d better,” I said, and the line clicked dead without another word. Flirting was new to me, but I liked it.

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.