Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

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 point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

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

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.