I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.

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

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.