Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. |
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. |
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. |
Writing is thinking on paper. |
Critics? I love every bone in their heads. |
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. |
In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business. |
It's a cliche to say it's an honor just to be nominated. But it's more than that. It's a lie. |
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. |
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth, and that is why we call what he writes fiction. |