A map is not a journey.

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

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

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

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

It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books... to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

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.