It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!