There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

All men are Jews, though few men know it.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

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.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.