I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.