Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
From E. L. Doctorow
Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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