Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child.
A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?
All writers have their own pet commandments.
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
Writers are not narcissists. They simply acknowledge that what they find interesting is not unique to them.
Take your ego out of your story.
The truth brings people closer together.
Listen to what the sky is telling you.
Listen when your heart speaks.
Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.
I love the smell of coffee when I wake up in the morning. It gives me the awesome feeling of hope!
The wonderful thing about writers like [James] Baldwin is the way we read them and come across passages that are so arresting we become breathless and have to raise our eyes from the page to keep from...
Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses....
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.
I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.
Just surrender to the story.
Work with yourself.
Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again.
Whenever I feel sad, I just take out my phone and listen to her laughter recorded in my online messenger.