Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.