Status Updates From Seducing the Demon: Writing...

"Now the girls of my daughter’s generation have size-twelve feet and
booming voices. They all have BlackBerries.They text-message
their funky desires to their lovers. They read my books and think: Why did
my mother hide this from me? It’s not that raunchy at all."

"His eyes held you in his
gaze as if you were the only person on the planet. The only other man I’ve
met who had such intensity was Ingmar Bergman, another born seducer—in the gloomy northern style. Are these men from the cold and gloomy north so sexy because they taunt you with the promise of sex that can melt icebergs? Or is it the intensity of genius that attracts? Genius is a strong aphrodisiac."

"The job of the writer is to seduce the demons of creativity and make up
stories. Often you go to bed with a man who claims to be a demon and later you find out he’s just an everyday slob. By then he may have inspired a novel. The novel remains though the demon has departed."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YESSSSS i screamed

"Practicing writing is like practicing freedom. You
are always on your way, never there. People are constantly asking, “How
did you do it?” After a while you start to ask yourself. "

"I was there because I was a writer, someone who takes the universal whore of language and turns her into a virgin again."

" I’ve never stopped expecting it, never stopped trying to tell it
and never stopped getting mad when it is not told to me. Why do I care so
much?.. I’ve made it my mission in
writing to get other people to hate lies too.
getting mad at lies so important? Because our survival depends
on it"