You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

Keep passing the open windows.

It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.