Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

Writers will be judged by what they write.

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.