She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
A writer should always feel like he's in over his head
Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American kids going to bed with no math at all.
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.