Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.