A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.