She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.