Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

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

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.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.