“He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general."It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".”
“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.”
“A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal.”
“I flipped open my phone and sent Daniel a text: I love you.As I crawled into bed, my phone beeped with a message back from him: Always.”
“The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).”
“Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.”