The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.