Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.

Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.

Writing is a craft not an art.

As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.