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

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

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

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

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

A map is not a journey.

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