Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.