You Should Never Trust A Person Who

Write With The Door Closed, Rewrite With The Door Open. Your Stuff Starts Out Being Just For You, In Other Words, But Then It Goes Out. Once You Know What The Story Is And Get It Right — As Right As You Can, Anyway — It Belongs To Anyone Who Wants To Read It. Or Criticize It.

It's Up To Men To Build Things ... It's Up To God To Blow Them Down.

Like Anything Else That Happens On Its Own, The Act Of Writing Is Beyond Currency. Money Is Great Stuff To Have, But When It Comes To The Act Of Creation, The Best Thing Is Not To Think Of Money Too Much. It Constipates The Whole Process.

I Felt Lonely And Content At The Same Time. I Believe That Is A Rare Kind Of Happiness.

The World Had Moved On And All That Was Over, Done Before Fairly Begun.