Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

Nationality isn't soul.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

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.