I Always Try To Make The Setting

You Write For Two People, Yourself And Your Audience, Who Are Usually Better Educated And At Least As Smart.

The Highest Praise A Writer Can Give Another Is To Say He Wishes He Had Written His Book. I Wish I Had Written Forty Words For Sorrow. Giles Blunt Has A Tremendous Talent. If You Miss Forty Words For Sorrow, You'll Miss One Of Best Novels Of 2001.

The First Chapter Law Is, "don't Spend Much Time On It. You're Going To Have To Rewrite It."

Everything Is Connected. The Wing Of The Corn Beetle Affects The Direction Of The Wind, The Way The Sand Drifts, The Way The Light Reflects Into The Eye Of Man Beholding His Reality. All Is Part Of Totality, And In This Totality Man Finds His Hozro, His Way Of Walking In Harmony, With Beauty All Around Him.

From Where We Stand The Rain Seems Random. If We Could Stand Somewhere Else, We Would See The Order In It.