O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.