The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer..
The quieter we become, the more we can hear..
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which tau….
I didn't take a single business class. I learned on the job..
Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself..
Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie..
Those who cannot begin do not finish..
An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself..
That's all I cared about too, was getting it right..
I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you..
Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a m….
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play..
I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction..
The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it,….
I must have true love or nothing..
I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!.
I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the s….
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves..
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women..
When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..
In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books..