事情
"The most dangerous thing is to pretend that everything is fine when it's not."
The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is. A hat trick in a medicine show. A fevered dream. A trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent. An itinerant carnival. A migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
It's not the writer's job to tell you how to feel. It's the writer's job to tell you something and make you feel it.
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
The best thing about being a writer is that you get to live in the world you create.
The trick is to pay attention to what's happening around you and to keep writing.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing—not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens.
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do—we do it all the time.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken.
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
There is no such thing as great wisdom in the world, just as there is no such thing as talent. What exists is triviality. If you keep doing repetitive things, you become an expert; if you do repetitive things with special focus, you become a master.