Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.
Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
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.