Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.