The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.