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

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.

A map is not a journey.

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.

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.