I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look pa….

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the villag….

Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot wh….

After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usuall….

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ide….

That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the evening and then found her w….

He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that wo….

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated..

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before..

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence..

Fame isn't healthy for a writer..

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are..

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41..