In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.

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

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

People are quite frequently eccentric.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.