“I had discovered something; there was a pleasure in becoming something new. You could will yourself into a fresh shape. Now all I had to do was figure out how to do it out there, in my life.”
“She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?”
“It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.”
“Now, can I help you with something? I’m new, but I’ll do my best to figure out how to get what you need.”…“That’s good to hear, Abby, since I need your breasts for a few minutes.”
“i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.”
“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]”