“I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.”
“I’ll distract them,” Carter said. “You search. The Trophy room is through there.”“Carter!”But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.”
“I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.”
“I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.”
“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”
“The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.”