Stop shoulding on yourself.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself..

The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television..

When it comes to asking for raise, you just have to do it in the right way. You may get a no, and that's fine, but ask and make sure you know when yo….

By Googling myself, I'm not going to find anything I like..

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce..

I don't offend anyone, I don't use anyone, I don't exploit anyone..

The ideal length of time for sex to last is the entire relationship, breaking only for snacks..

I learned early on that I'd rather not be taught something somebody else's way, I'd rather do it the most organic way I know. So, whatever I end up w….

I was hired as a penciler..

God is always at work around you..

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write ….

Every intentional act is a magical act..

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses..

I love all of our subpodcasts..

Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel..

You live day by day. You can't build your life..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..