As Herman Melville Wrote Of That Seagoing

Something Like Going To Get The Newspaper Can Increase Your Writing Efficiency By Taking You Away From The Material. When I'm Doing Other Things, Writing Stuff Will Be Swirling Around In My Head, And Sometimes I'll See A New Way Into The Material.

Enthusiasm Is Big. When I Write A Book, It's A Three-year Commitment. Toward The End, I'm Writing Seven Days A Week, And It's Exhausting But Thrilling. The Only Hope Is To Have Some Real Enthusiasm For The Book. ... Above All, You Need Some Strong Emotional Or Personal Connection To Your Material.

As Herman Melville Wrote Of That Seagoing Monster Of A Man Captain Ahab, “all Mortal Greatness Is But Disease.

To My Mind, An Adventure Is Something A Person Willingly Undertakes.

You Know, If You're At Home With Children, You Lose Twenty-five Iq Points.