Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.