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.
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.
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.