Watch TV or something. " That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.
Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.
Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.