Jeff Vandermeer Giving Quotations

My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."

When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.