Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)