Make the faster parts slow, and make the slower parts fast.

How does speed change our perception of distance?

For every jittery student, there’s a jittery teacher.

A lot of trouble could have been avoided if Mr. Darcy had simply sent a text.

I once ordered breakfast in Budapest and was brought a cake.

When a key character plops onto the page–silent and defiant.

An inability to meet expectations: straining to compensate for lost words.

What you remember isn’t what you find.

Where the sun falls and time doesn’t exist.

How to separate the gallery wall from the backyard bin, the catwalk from the passé, the joke that hits from the off-beat crack?

What about all those hardcovers that seethe with hatred?

Why do writers distrust sentimentality?

When you watch yourself lie.

What creates the chronology of a story?

Which risk is most overlooked?

First drafts are murders of passion; second drafts wash the scene before the police arrive.

Why should your sentences end with a punch?

Please never write about what you know.

Just because something is made up doesn’t mean it’s not true.

What’s known and what’s unknown: how you are judged.