Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.

The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.

There is truly no other place bearing so much love as airports.

Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.- Camille Preaker

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.