What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.