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If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.