The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.

We always want to share and cherish our moments from Happiness.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that's something no earthly prize or trophy could ever top.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.