“Sometimes I write about the forest, sometimes I write about the trees, and occasionally I’ll write about the lumberjack. Actually, the lumberjack is more the editing part, figuring what needs to be cut.”
“Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.”
“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
“I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about""You could write about us”
“If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.”