The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.