I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night.