Writing Is A Mode Of Being. If

Tomorrow The World Is Not The Same As Today, Though God Listens With The Same Ear.

Somewhere I Put It This Way: First Drafts Are For Learning What One’s Fiction Wants Him To Say. Revision Works With That Knowledge To Enlarge And Enhance An Idea, To Reform It. Revision Is One Of The Exquisite Pleasures Of Writing.

If The Stories Come, You Get Them Written, You're On The Right Track. Eventually Everyone Learns His Or Her Own Best Way. The Real Mystery To Crack Is You.

You Write By Sitting Down And Writing. There's No Particular Time Or Place—you Suit Yourself, Your Nature. How One Works, Assuming He's Disciplined, Doesn't Matter.

What Suffering Has Taught Me Is The Uselessness Of Suffering.