He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game.

People tell me I look like my father. I've never seen my dad, so does that mean I look invisible?

A pen is like a switchblade you can actually write with—and pull off a successful mugging with.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

All my best writing was written before 1982, and then a significant event happened to me: I was born.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.

Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

I will be caught finally, I will be broken. Not broken, incarcerated. Her will be incarcerated in Her.