Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.
I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.