Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.
It was like drowning, only from the inside out.
Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair