If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

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

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.