Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.