"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better."
"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."