Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
People say that where there’s life, there’s hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.There is hope, therefore I live.
Reading is the creative center of a writer's life.
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.
Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor
So okay there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day,...
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, y...
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee ol...
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out th...
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no mor...
The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon?
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.
The turtle couldn't help us.
There’s always someone who knows something.
What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.
What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
When it was done and I went to sleep, I lay awake and listened to the clock on your nightstand and the wind outside and understood that I was really home, that in bed with you was home, and something...
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?He stared at me, baffled. Why the fuck would you do that?
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