Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.