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.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

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.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.