Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

I took a little celebrational nap.

The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.

I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.