Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.
The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.
As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'
I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.
People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.