Exercise the writing muscle every day.

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.