But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

How plotless real life was!

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.