Big things always interest me, but the big things don’t work because they’re too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things. – Max Apple
If I’m stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn’t, I still feel better. – Max Apple
I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence. – Max Apple
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer’s obsessiveness. – Max Apple
I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don’t notice because you’re so interested in what’s happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating. – Max Apple
As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize. – Max Apple
As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan. – Max Apple
I’m not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time. – 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. – Max Apple
