Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 7, 1941
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites..
Truth is always duller than fiction..
Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should be neither homiliā¦.
Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust..