In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.