I'm Not A Born Writer, And I

There Are No Brave Men And Cowardly Men In The World, My Son. There Are Only Brave Men. To Be Born, To Live, To Die—that Takes Courage Enough In Itself, And More Than Enough. We Are All Brave Men And We Are All Afraid, And What The World Calls A Brave Man, He Too Is Brave And Afraid Like The All Rest Of Us. Only He Is Brave For Five Minutes Longer.

I'm Not A Novelist, I'm A Storyteller. There Is No Art In What I Do, No Mystique.

I'm Not A Born Writer, And I Don't Enjoy Writing.

...the Men Of The Ulysses Had No Need To Stand In Shame...many Had Found, Or Were Finding, That The Point Of No Return Was Not Necessarily The Edge Of The Precipice: It Could Be The Bottom Of The Valley, The Beginning Of The Long Climb Up The Far Slope, And When A Man Had Once Begun That Climb He Never Looked Back To That Other Side.

I Wrote Each Book In Thirty-five Days Flat - Just To Get The Darned Thing Finished.