Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.