All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.