For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

You will not read voice on the page; you will hear it in your head.

It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is.

We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

It takes some strength to fight. It takes greater strength to choose not to fight.

Experience is a sacred education.

Learn to say to the abuser in a firm voice, "Stop it." Do not explain yourself, your needs, or what you mean. Simply call a halt to the abuse, and let that be your final word.

Not only the right thing is the right thing, but doing the right out of the right motives is the right thing.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

The product Disney created actually changed a life, and that was significant to them. They didn't stand in my way at all.

We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.