I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.

I'm just a dog person. I love dogs very much, especially big ones, hounds, and retrievers. I think they are funny and often have good senses of humor. Plus, they give unconditional love.

I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there.

I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity.

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.

I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.

Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck.

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.

To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky

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