Become Such As You Are, Having Learned

Everyone Said, 'well, You're Very Old For A First Novel,' And I Said, 'how Do You Write When You Haven't Lived? How Do You Write When You Have No Experience? How Do You Write Straight Out Of University?

I Am Mad, I Think. I Am Mad Therefore I Think. I Am Mad Therefore I Think I Am.

If You Don't Have A Unique Voice, Then You're Not Really A Writer.

It Wasn't That [he] Believed In Religion, Or A God, Or An Afterlife. He Just Knew It Was Impossible To Feel This Much Love And For It To End.

I Spent Four Years Doing A Doctorate In Postmodern American Literature. I Can Recognize It When I See It.