“If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.”
“If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.”
“My dear, you used to be quite a dish; now you're quite a tureen.”
“A Bible-quoting erotica writer--you are quite the oxymoron.”
“I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?”
“This can shake you up, this business of things almost but not quite being the same. A pharmacy is not quite a drugstore; a brasserie is not quite a coffee shop; a lunch is not quite a lunch.”