“Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.”
“Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.”
“There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.”
“The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end.”
“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”
“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery”