A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

Professional Southerners sicken me.

Literature is the history of the soul.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

Peering around her, I took note exactly where the hundred metre high cliff started. i didn't want to be taking an unexpected flying lesson today.

.keep the child inside you alive..

I've always played games. I've been brought up around gaming.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

If I love the character, then thats all that matters to me. It doesnt really matter what genre it is.

[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.