Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better..

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art..

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget..

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet..

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out..

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material..

I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cli….

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years..

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need….

Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginnin….

I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answ….

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even th….

I grew up in the 70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours ever….

The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because ev….

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well..

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even….

Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and f….

I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful a….

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work..

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of ….

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do..