How Easy It Was To Make People

Something's Your Vocation If It Keeps Making More Of You.

I Work Continuously Within The Shadow Of Failure. For Every Novel That Makes It To My Publisher's Desk, There Are At Least Five Or Six That Died On The Way. And Even With The Ones I Do Finish, I Think Of All The Ways They Might Have Been Better.

The More You Respect And Focus On The Singular And The Strange, The More You Become Aware Of The Universal And Infinite.

Much Of The Activity We Think Of As Writing Is, Actually, Getting Ready To Write.

You're Supposed To Get Tired Planting Bulbs. But It's An Agreeable Tiredness.