She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary

One does not know where love will take you.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.