Quotes about "Time & Aging"

In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes. ”

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies. ”

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you. ”

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well. ”

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions. ”

English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control. ”

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you. ”

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. ”

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time. ”

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. ”