“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah ...”

“Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the citys most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint”

“What people value in their booksand thus what they count as literaturereally tells you more about them than it does about the book.”

“Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city’s most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint”

“What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”

“There's nothing sexier than imaging myself as an Oxford comma getting unambiguously banged. Throw in a semicolon in between two closely related independent clauses, and a volcanic love of punctuati...”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”