I like to discover something new each day, to interpret the world in a way others might not, like a child might approach new experiences.

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

To be a great writer, you must be nomadic. I’d recommend the hunter/gatherer lifestyle for anybody serious about being nonsensical.

I want to write an unreliable narrator. In fact, he’ll be so unreliable that I’m not even sure he’ll show up to narrate.

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

Jika ingin menjadi seorang penulis pertama sekali kena membaca, kedua kena membaca, ketiga, membaca, keempat membaca dan kelima baru menulis.

Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

With critics, judgment is mainly based on external factors of the poet or the genuine interest of the writer or the art itself or themselves.

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.