You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

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.

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

Ragtime was my lullaby.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.