Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.

I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.

A writer is always working.

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.

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.