You Write By Sitting Down And Writing.

The Past Exudes Legend: One Can't Make Pure Clay Of Time's Mud.

We Didn't Starve But Nobody Ate Chicken Unless We Were Sick Or The Chicken Was.

First Drafts Are For Learning What Your Novel Or Story Is About. Revision Is Working With That Knowledge To Enlarge And Enhance An Idea, To Re-form It.... The First Draft Of A Book Is The Most Uncertain-where You Need Guts, The Ability To Accept The Imperfect Until It Is Better.

Some Men Are By Nature Explorers; My Nature Is To Stay Under The Same Moon And Stars, And If The Weather Is Wet, Under The Same Roof. It's A Strange World, Why Make It Stranger?

For Misery Don't Blame God. He Gives The Food But We Cook It.