Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

That isn’t writing at all, it’s typing.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.