A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.
The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.