I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.