“There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.”
“Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life.”
“I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.”
“There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.”
“Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.”
“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”