Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.