Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

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

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.