Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer.

I wasn't born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don't like me the way I am,then go fly a kite.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.

A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.