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 i….

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say..

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them..

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 enh….

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams..

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend..

Nationality isn't soul..

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows..

Charity you can give even when you haven't got..

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear..

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others..

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of hi….

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks..

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something..