Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.