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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.