We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

Do not fall in love.....it means you have to look at someone else.

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.

To understand is to forgive.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Gerald Green is a fine Coach and Trainer, I have every confidence in his professionalism.

The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.

Money is for making things happen.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.