You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.

They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.

I'm a compassionate conservative.

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.