Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?
Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.
The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.