Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life is fundamentally up for grabs
You can't be deep without a surface
Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.
I met someone who lives in an elevator.
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.
Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...
What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.
There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.
Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.
The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.
I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.
Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.
Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.
I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.
My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.
Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.
Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror
Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.
I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.
I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.
I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.
Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.
Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.