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

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

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.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?