“That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.”
“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.”
“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying and liberating to consider this aspect of being a novelist.”
“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”
“The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.”
“A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit…”