1. “If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don’t they will feel betrayed.”
2. “Each man creates god in his own image.”
3. “Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it’s about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.”
4. “A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.”
5. “A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.”
6. “Everybody writes a book too many.”
7. “If you’re writing a novel, you’re in a room for three or four years. There’s not much coming in from the outside.”
8. “Beauty like male ballet dances, makes some men afraid.”
9. “There are three sides of every argument. Yours. The other guy’s. And the right side.”
10. “I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.”
