I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.