Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

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

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

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.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

4.38 TONE OF SPEECHMost of the problems of life that be, Are caused by the tone of speech only, It is never what is said in reality, But how it’s said that causes harm truly.[221] – 4

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.