Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money ….

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue..

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision..

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible..

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….

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….

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

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

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost calle….

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

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside 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..

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….

I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain, who in my view….

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

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

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?.

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

God bless the Reference Librarians.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?.