Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.