Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.