I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

It's nice not to have to worry about applying for things. It's really a different existence.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

[Tom Cotton] is seen as a real rising star in the Republican Party. He's the youngest member of the United States Senate, routinely described as an up and comer.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.