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.

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.

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.

A decision clouded with doubt is never a good decision

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

Schedule a sacred date with yourself. You deserve time for your life.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

You win some, you lose some, and you keep it to yourself.

We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.