Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.

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

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

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

Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.