All solutions are temporary, so why not go for duct tape?

Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.