We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.
We all suffer from dreams
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
Writing is a solitary occupation.
There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.