Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
What I’ve learned is that the muses’ decision to sing or not to sing is not based on the elevation of your moral purpose – they will sing or not, regardless.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.
Self knowledge is always bad news.
The story of your life is not your life; it’s your story.
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.