If Fate Sends You A Lemon, Use

One Thing That Helps Is To Give Myself Permission To Write Badly. I Tell Myself That I'm Going To Do My Five Or 10 Pages No Matter What, And That I Can Always Tear Them Up The Following Morning If I Want. I'll Have Lost Nothing-writing And Tearing Up Five Pages Would Leave Me No Further Behind Than If I Took The Day Off.

Something I Learned Long Ago. It Is Not Necessary To Know What A Person Is Afraid Of. It Is Enough To Know The Person Is Afraid.

I Think Persistence In The Face Of Adversity Is An Essential Part Of A Writer’s Job Description. If You Don’t Care Enough About It To Avoid Being Easily Disheartened That Way, You Really Should Be Doing Something Else.

Every Year There's A Few More Things I'm Not Sure Of. I've Decided That A Wide-ranging Uncertainty Is The Mark Of The True Maturity Of Man.

I Don't Know About The Rest Of The Country But In New York More People Have Learned Anonymity From Rent Control Than Ever Discovered It In A Twelve-step Program.