I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.