My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.