Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.
The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.
She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.