Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.