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

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Politics isn't in my nature.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

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.