Writing Is The Clumsy Attempt To Find

When You Love You Wish To Do Things For. You Wish To Sacrifice For. You Wish To Serve.

Why Should Anybody Be Interested In Some Old Man Who Was A Failure?

Take A Good Rest, Small Bird," He Said. "then Go In And Take Your Chance Like Any Man Or Bird Or Fish.

I’m Trying In All My Stories To Get The Feeling Of The Actual Life Across—not To Just Depict Life—or Criticize It—but To Actually Make It Alive. So That When You Have Read Something By Me You Actually Experience The Thing. You Can’t Do This Without Putting In The Bad And The Ugly As Well As What Is Beautiful. Because If It Is All Beautiful You Can’t Believe In It. Things Aren’t That Way.

As You Get Older It Is Harder To Have Heroes, But It Is Sort Of Necessary.