Max Apple

The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.

I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.