I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

The monster nevers dies.

Time's the thief of memory

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.