In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.