Love And Despair Go Hand In Hand.

A Writers Job Is To Destroy And Then To Build The Thing Back Up Again By A Chosen Means.

I Don't Really Believe In A Creative-writing Major As An Undergraduate. It's A Bad Idea, Terrible. I've Met Creative-writing Majors From Other Places And They Don't Know A Goddamn Thing. They're The Worst Students. They Just Think They're Good Because They Could Pass.

If You Are Able To Explain Suffering, A Man Once Told Him, You Weren't Really There.

The Alcohol Had The Code And Mystery About It As A Writer's Drug, But I'm Glad That's Been Debunked. But The Trouble With The Drinking, Much As I Hate To Admit It, Is It Helped The Work.

My Best Stories Come Out Of Nowhere, With No Concern For Form At All.