I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

Even nothing cannot last forever.

Never mind. There. For good or bad. It's done.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.