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

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.
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
Voice is not just the result of a single sentence or paragraph or page. It’s not even the sum total of a whole story. It’s all your work laid out across the table like the bones and fossils of an unidentified carcass.
“It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.”
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.