What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in flux, so therefore you hav….

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we ar….

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books..

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things..

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic..

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls..

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer..

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully..

The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are..

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money..

What reality was ever made by realists?.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me..

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul..

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story..

I think writing should be about change..

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true..

The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we all dream, where all are w….

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce..