Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Votes: 21
Leis go brown, tectonic plates shift, deep currents move, islands vanish, rooms get forgotten." Votes: 0
Anything worth having has its price. Votes: 0
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. Votes: 0
I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. Votes: 0
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. Votes: 0
To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension. Votes: 0
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Votes: 0
I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. Votes: 0
The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time. Votes: 0
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Votes: 0
Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus. Votes: 0
It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive. Votes: 0
Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. Votes: 0
Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere Votes: 0
We write to discover what we think. Votes: 0
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Votes: 0
It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it. Votes: 0
It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places. Votes: 0
We all have the same dreams. Votes: 0
I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing. Votes: 0
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. Votes: 0
I lead a very conventional life. Votes: 0
California: The west coast of Iowa. Votes: 0
I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose. Votes: 0
We are the stories we tell ourselves Votes: 0
Information is control. Votes: 0
Writers are only rarely likable. Votes: 0