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.

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

A map is not a journey.

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

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

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot...I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

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