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.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

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

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

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.