Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.