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.

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.

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.