Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.