What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations? We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style... but as we move along, you'd do well to remember that we are also talking about magic.

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.