“I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that. I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages.”
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
“I am a writer and I want to write.”
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.”
“Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”