Occupation: Author Birth: October 31, 1932
A dream without a plan is just a wish.
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are man….
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in….
It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you..
I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write..
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied..
Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond yo….
Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it..
My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can….
Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years..
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'.
It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness..
Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire..
If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal pe….
If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?.
Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned..
If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?.
We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes..
On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns….
Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August..
What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much le….