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

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.

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

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.

I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

When I was playing, it would be whatever role I wanted. Now it's whatever they ask me to do, which I kind of like better.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.