I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.
I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets.
You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!
The best secrets are the most twisted
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.
Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.
I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.