“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.”

“Yes, yes," Gee Sook said. "Look how Jung stands like a man today.”

“While we played, Meiying often sat by herself on the bench, huddled against the chill, looking at the library books on her lap, the pages glowing under the street lamp. The pages would sometimes turn in the wind, but she did not notice.”

“I don’t know what I’ll do until I know what you’ll do. I’m proactive with my preemptive reactive strategy.
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“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his current thoughts. Why, this means that I know what he knows, and the point of reading is to discover things and thoughts which I don’t already know or that haven’t occurred to me. The greatest amusement is surprise. Fellatio! (Bet you didn’t see that coming!)”

“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”