“As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. ”

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”

“I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.”

“For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was. It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the bed we wake up in in the morning and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”

“For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.”

“I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.”

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”