When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!