Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.

Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.

When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.

It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.

Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.