Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.
One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.
One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.
I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.
The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.
We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.
All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.
But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
God loves the world. Go thou and do likewise.
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.