I Have Only One Bit Of Advice

I Love Writing. I Love The Swirl And Swing Of Words As They Tangle With Human Emotions.

The Job Of A Storyteller Is To Tell Stories, And I Have Concentrated On That Obligation.

No Man Leaves Where He Is And Seeks A Distant Place Unless He Is In Some Respect A Failure.

I Write At Eighty-five For The Same Reasons That Impelled Me To Write At Forty-five; I Was Born With A Passionate Desire To Communicate, To Organize Experience, To Tell Tales That Dramatize The Adventures Which Readers Might Have Had. I Have Been That Ancient Man Who Sat By The Campfire At Night And Regaled The Hunters With Imaginative Recitations About Their Prowess. The Job Of An Apple Tree Is To Bear Apples. The Job Of A Storyteller Is To Tell Stories, And I Have Concentrated On That Obligation.

You Don't Fight To Protect Warships Or Old Men. Like The Book Says, You Fight To Save Your Civilization. And So Often It Seems That Civilization Is Composed Mainly Of The Things Women And Children Want.