But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own histo….

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America.".

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lowe….

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself..

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills..

I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who view….

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is..

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little ….

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the ….

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others..

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us..

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game..

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries..

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that wing….

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye..

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves.

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in….

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?.

I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. An….

In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though time were not sequential in n….