Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
From Stephen King
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
We're news junkies in my house.
This is not a bad life.
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