“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”

“If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they’ve gotten good at it, and they’re expected to do something else to support themselves while the industry that sells this craft supports itself very well, something is badly wrong. Morally wrong.”

“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”

“Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.”

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

“It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.”

“In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me”