The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.