A Novelist Is A Person Who Lives

Planning To Write Is Not Writing. Outlining, Researching, Talking To People About What You're Doing - None Of That Is Writing. Writing Is Writing. Writing Is Like Driving At Night In The Fog. You Can Only See As Far As Your Headlights, But You Can Make The Whole Trip That Way.

Writers Are Not Just People Who Sit Down And Write. They Hazard Themselves. Every Time You Compose A Book Your Composition Of Yourself Is At Stake.

I Have Been Everywhere Because I Don't Know What I'm Looking For.

Someone Dying Asks If There Is Life After Death. Yes, Comes The Answer, Only Not Yours.

The Voice Of The Constitution Is The Inescapably Solemn Self-consciousness Of The People Giving The Law Unto Themselves.