Drew McCutchen

“I understood that he did not see the person he was talking to. He had the drifter's inclination to be impervious to names and faces. These were interchangeable components room to room, country to country. He did not talk so much as narrate. He traced a wavy line, his, and there was usually someone willing to be the random body that he told his stories to.”
― Don DeLillo, Zero K

“I read in a book the following piece of wisdom: 'He who remains silent in the face of injustice is a mute Satan.' I went out into the streets and saw Satans everywhere.”
― Osama Alomar, Fullblood Arabian

“It was an unspoken fact that she could leave at any moment with very little pain, whereas he would be devastated. A puddle of rejection. Because he knew nothing like this would ever happen to him again for the rest of his life. He would never again find a woman like Alice, and after she was gone he would return to the life she had revealed to be tedious and barren.”
― Nathan Hill

“My best time as a writer is any day, or any moment, when the work's going well and I'm completely absorbed in the task at hand. The hardest time is when it's not, and I'm not. The latter tend to outnumber the former. But I'm a persistent little cuss. And I soldier on.”
― Meredith Maran, Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do