quotes – Matt Caprioli

Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money.

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there's finally not telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now

When I write, I am trying through the movement of my fingers to read my head. I'm trying to build a word ladder up to my brain. Eventually these words help me come to an idea, and the I rewrite and rewrite and rewrite what I'd already written (when I had no idea what I was writing about) until the path of thinking, in retrospect, feels immediate. What's on the page appears to have busted out of my head and traveled down my arms and through my fingers and my keyboard and coalesced on the screen. But it didn't happen like that; it never happens like that

Wanting people to like you corrupts your writing.

She writes with a rare, thrilling confidence, in a lucid and exacting style uncluttered with the sort of steroidal imagery and strobe flashes of figurative language that so many dutifully literary novelists employ.

I don’t think you can write a book that’s worth anything without extraordinary discipline.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.