The best fights don’t occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
I write compulsively. I’ve got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can’t not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.
Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.
We all have some proper noun to blame.
Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.
Because after you’ve crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there’s no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.
I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that’s not on the map. A real adventure.
As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents’ dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you’re never really finished as a person.
What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don’t worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you’ll succeed in the world.
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.
Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I’m a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.
I always thought I’d write when I retired – when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I’d do the writing thing.
Let’s all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.
I hate how I don’t feel real enough unless people are watching.
I write because it’s a way of presenting something without having to be there.
Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.