What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories..

I'm not just another bimbo..

I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike..

Ronaldinho did things that I've never seen anyone do..

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit..

Don't take things too seriously..

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it..

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it..

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense..

They hear you own up, and they learn to own up..

Stay small and control it yourself..

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound..

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing..

Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story..

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, su….

Every thing is changing every minute..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn..

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the one….

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become..