I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.