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We were assigned straight to the lion’s muzzle, the Sardasht front.

It was more fun to get drunk with a friend than with a lover.

Part of my desire to be in London related to its writers.

This box is full of wires, energy that moves in ways I can hardly fathom.

home is his hands, our bowls, so many gay fridge magnets.

I’ve wavered in confidence, but never on whether I was going to write.

Suddenly John was there, in slim blue jeans and a rough white shirt.

Do we hunger after conflict as much as we hunger after justice?

No one in Lagos slouches. Bravado pulsates through the room.

I came to computers while trying to run away from literature.

I’m told that even during war, she took the time to put on lipstick.

The best writers talk a story the way they put it down on the page.

In the best fiction, there exists a palpable sense of discovery.

It’s wrong to say the lightning is pink is nothing other than to say it’s not.

If you’re not having fun, then there isn’t a big impetus to stay alive.

Mentors can suggest to you what more you are capable of.

A romp through everyday dramas with Hemingway, Kafka, and more!

If the kind hearts had fat purses, how much better everything would go!

Heaven preserve me from the Epidemic of a Proud Ignorance!

It’s been a rainy, relatively windless fall, the aspen leaves clinging.

What’s the most useful criticism you’ve received? “Keep writing.”

Henry Chinaski is just so deplorable and lovable; he makes me laugh.

I simply wrapped my arms around Maxey and held on for dear life.

I’ve found that love has provided my life’s happiest moments.

A friend of my father’s once told me, “You’ll never be a writer.”

It’s best for my heart to have hours and hours each day to write.

Every really good book on first reading is life changing.

Love is the difference between a full life and an empty one.

I’m a big fan of then. A novel needs a lot of thens.