As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.