I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.