18 quotes found
“I am your number one fan.”
“He felt gladness roar through his soul.”
“A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.”
“Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.”
“... good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.”
“... when editors were flattered, they would sometimes give in on some of their mad ideas.”
“The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of thi...”
“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean hell, I know that.”
“He felt as he always did when he finished a book queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.”
“As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light.As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. ...”
“Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent...”
“He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.”
“His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warmed up now, it was hot and running on full choke....”
“In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took place when you...”
“The gotta, as in: I think Ill stay up another fifteen-twenty minutes, honey, I gotta see how this chapter comes out. Even though the guy who says it spent the day at work thinking about getting lai...”
“But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient.”
“He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, th...”
“She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again.”
