I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.
In America you make your plans and then they happen.
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.
Use between three and five photos in your gallery. Galleries with more photos are more competitive, but after five they seem to pass a point of saturation and diminishing return.
War is what happens when language fails.
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.