I am about as detailed as a shadow.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.