I Believe That A Writer Has To

Literature Is The Adventure. It's The Story, It's The Fight, It's People Falling In Love, It's People With Deep Personality Disorders Who Succeed Anyway Beyond Themselves. That's What Great Literature Is.

The Job Of The Writer Is To Take A Close And Uncomfortable Look At The World They Inhabit, The World We All Inhabit, And The Job Of The Novel Is To Make The Corpse Stink.

People Don't Understand How Hard It Is To Get Recognized, How Hard It Is To Get People To Read Your Books. How Hard It Is To Get People To Even To Understand What They're Reading When They're Talking To You About Their Books.

Our Collective Freedom... Depends On Our Ability To Defend The Rights Of Others.

... We Must Remember That There's More Than One Story And Plot In Every Novel. There Are At Least As Many Stories As There Are Main Characters, And Each Of These Stories Has To Have Multiple Plots To Keep It Going - Blood And Bone, Nerve And Tissue, Forgotten Longing And Unknown Events.