Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you t….

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing..

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won..

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….

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 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..

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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….

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..

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

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

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

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..

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