Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.