1. “The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.”
2. “Art’s too long and life’s too short.”
3. “Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.”
4. “Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
5. “Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.”
6. “We write about what we don’t know about what we know.”
7. “You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.”
8. “The only recognizable feature of hope is action.”
9. “There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.”
10. “I am very interested in people trying to write because I don’t have a big academic background at all.”
11. “I often see through things right to the apparition itself.”
12. “It’s a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.”
13. “For me the meaning of life is the next generation.”
14. “Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.”
15. “I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.”
16. “The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.”
17. “That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.”
18. “To be modest mean that you have something to be modest about.”
19. “Sometimes before people know what they’re saying, they already love the language.”
20. “Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.”
