First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is an unending process of self-discovery and creative evolution. Real success depends on being true to what fascinates you.

Prayer is like a business, the you put in more input the greater the output becomes.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.

May every one of us believe Him better, and have greater thoughts of Him, and never let us be guilty henceforth of confining, as it were, within iron bonds the limitless One of Israel.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.