Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
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.
Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.