"I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works."
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
"I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference."
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."
"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."