He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.