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.
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?