Together we all live every moment On the very brink; The razor’s edge Of ecstasy or disaster.
Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.
I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!
To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.
Older, you know, is obviously relative. You're older if there's somebody younger than you in the room, and you're younger if there's someone older in the room.