I hate that word dysfunction.

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.

she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.

Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.