Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.