Plots are for dead people.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, "That's funny," or instead of smiling said, "That's interesting," or instead of saying, "You are a stupid blithering idiot," said, "Well I think it's a little more complicated than that.

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does seem to me to be a kind of animal impulse almost, a mammalian curiosity. For a reader to wonder about the autobiography in a fiction may be completely unavoidable and in fact may speak to the success of a particular narrative, though it may also speak to its failure.

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.