I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.
If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.