Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations..

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream..

Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with ….

But no man's a hero to himself..

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it..

What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let ….

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft..

I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lif….

I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ea….

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people..

But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us….

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing….

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good..

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled..

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour..

Life is about trying things to see if they work..

There is only one type of story in the world-your story..

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves..

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school..

All isn't well with the world..

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!.