Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.