Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows..

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you shoul….

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings t….

I remember researching a really complicated article and having trouble keeping track of all the different perspectives. I ended up drawing a diagram ….

We go to school and teachers teach us to read and write but nobody teaches us about the purposeful commitment and intentionality it takes to make our….

I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn abou….

I could dispense with life sooner than with your love..

Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lift….

Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of mo….

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think..

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place..

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it..

Look, if somebody said tomorrow, "We're making a Lethal Weapon formula movie, but it's incredibly well-written and for two women," I'm not going to s….

It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when c….

Only that which can be switched, can be..

You are either free or not free.

Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the word LAUGH i….

So we have that, where there are moments where it's just Nic Cage and Amber Heard and you're in the car with them and it's not stuff flying at your f….

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey..

Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and un….

. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for cont….