“One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.”
“It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .”
“That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.”
“The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.”
“That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution. ”
“I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.”