Matt Warren

“Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things. Stories aren’t about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.”
― Francine Prose, The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House

“I looked around my office with quiet satisfaction. The place looked pretty nice. I had pictures on the walls of me posing with clues, getting yelled at by the mayor, and so on. There was a calendar on one wall that was running a couple of years slow, but it looked okay and had the months right, so I left it up. On another wall was a sign that said "DO IT TOMORROW". I got it cheap because it's bad advice.”
― John Swartzwelder, The Time Machine Did It

“I never conceived of myself as participating in some Oedipal anxiety about literary predecessors. Perhaps this is one of the great gifts of being a feminist: you’re off the hook from all that crap.”
― Francine Prose, The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House

“My books always say something, even if it’s just something simple like: 'Don’t genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men.”
― Garth Marenghi