“I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.”

“Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.”

“At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”

“I always tell myself, 'you can write anything, but first you have to write something'.”

“The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.”

“Most writers might as well write in invisible ink, because if what they’re writing is forgettable, it might as well be invisible too.”