Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.