A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
Black as night, sweet as sin.
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn’t she the one who killed her children?
I’m writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
And life is a good thing for a writer. It’s where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.
The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.
Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.
People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
I’ve been inspired by dreams – I’ve even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.
It’s not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It’s the most important thing there is.
My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It’s quiet.
It’s like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.
Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.
I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.