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Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
The best thing about being a writer is that you get to live in the world you create.
The trick is to pay attention to what's happening around you and to keep writing.
The fundamental fact about all of us is that we're alive for a while but will die before long.
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing—not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens.
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do—we do it all the time.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken.
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
The story is a machine to think with.
You are your best thing.
Every story has an end, but in life every end is a new beginning.
There is no such thing as great wisdom in the world, just as there is no such thing as talent. What exists is triviality. If you keep doing repetitive things, you become an expert; if you do repetitive things with special focus, you become a master.
