The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.