Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.