Nonfiction Is Easy And Fiction Is Hard.

If Anybody Had Shown Me The Paperwork For How My Life Was Going To Look In Five Years, I Would Have Said, "no. That Is Not Where I Want To Go."

You Can't Say, "i'm Too Busy Writing To Be Political." You Are One Person.

People Always Say, "can Writing Be Taught?" I Always Think, I Can Teach You How To Write A Better Sentence, How To Do Dialogue, How To Do Character, But I Can't Teach You How To Be A Decent Person, And I Can't Teach You How To Have Something To Say.

I Made A Startling Discovery. Time Spent Writing = Output Of Work. Amazing.

Reading Is A Private Act, Private Even From The Person Who Wrote The Book. Once The Novel Is Out There, The Author Is Beside The Point. The Reader And The Book Have Their Own Relationship Now, And Should Be Left Alone To Work Things Out For Themselves.