Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Writing is the best anti-depressant.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

I never met a word I didn't love

The novel cannot submit to authority.

With writing, we have second chances.

Follow the rules until you make them.

Stop talking about it and just WRITE!

Good fiction creates its own reality.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

And so I just kept writing to myself.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.