If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.