There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.