When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

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.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.