The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?