How we learn is what we learn.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

A masterpiece is a piece that masters things.

For the evil our government does, tinfoil hats are simply not required, and are indeed a detriment.

Identity and self-belief: a courage that swells from within, borne of waters drunk deeply.

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

I only wish I had more time for fund raising.

The brave find a home in every land.

If you are not being attacked by materialist, you must be doing something wrong

If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out?

There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.