Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.