Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

God bless the Reference Librarians

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.