The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.
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.