Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

Sometimes living takes more courage than dying.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

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

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?