The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than….

When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindicat….

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person..

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold..

Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you h….

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from?..

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy….

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world..

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be underst….

But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combina….

Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And….

The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than….

Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of….

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for….

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people..