"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.