What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.