The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

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.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

Master the attitude of gratitude and the pathway to abundance will open for you.

I do know the difference between right and wrong, but I just like the way wrong feels. It's an impulse, an urge more intense than anything else.

I can give or take elephants

No, of course not. I just feel content, ” she said carefully.“That’s an old person’s word, ” said Ethan.

It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'

Your success doesn't depend on anybody else but you.

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles