To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.
Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.