The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.