Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
I spend about a year between novels
How plotless real life was!
But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
. . . if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
For me, writing something down was the only road out. . . I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
I have no great message to the world.
The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.
The world's most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice.
The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.