The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.