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

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

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.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.