Max Apple Quotes

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

- 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

I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.

- Max Apple

I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

- Max Apple