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

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

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.

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.