Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.