Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.

In writing with detail, you are turning to face the world. It is a deeply political act, because you are not staying in the heat of your own emotions. You are offering up some good solid bread for the hungry.

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.