Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to really show what's going on at all times, how things smell and look, as well as from the knowledge that I don't want to push things too quickly through to climax; if I do, it won't mean anything. Everything has to be earned, and it takes a lot of work to earn.

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.