Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off.

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.

Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.

It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.

It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.