Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

Where to look if you've lost your mind?