I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.
I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.
The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.
Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.
No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.