I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.

I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.