Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with

When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.