Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

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.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.