Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.