I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.