Jonathan Carroll Quotes
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
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Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
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At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
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I feel like a cliche.
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There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
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I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
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For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
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The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.
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Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.