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I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
I want more out of life than I've gotten.
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.
Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.
