A Novelist Is A Person Who Lives

Planning To Write Is Not Writing. Outlining, Researching, Talking To People About What You're Doing, None Of That Is Writing. Writing Is Writing.

There Is No Longer Any Such Thing As Fiction Or Nonfiction; There's Only Narrative.

I Try To Avoid Experience If I Can. Most Experience Is Bad.

I've Known Several Cases Of Writers Who Decide To Write About Something And They Research The Hell Out Of It And When They're Ready To Write, They Can't Move Because They Are So Burdened. I Start Writing. Whatever I Need Somehow Comes To Hand.

I Have Committed Many Sins In My Life. This Precise Sin-the Sin Against Poets-is Without Absolution.