A map is not a journey.

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

Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never seen. Now that I am a hundred years old (this September) it still takes me to the outside world I can no longer visit.

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.

A map is not a journey.

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