So many things are possible as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.

So many things are possible as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
