Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.