I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm ….

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier..

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being ….

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it..

I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and the power of Perfidia i….

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all..

If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake of the d….

Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaa….

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday..

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer..

When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My writing process was heavily influe….

It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a ….

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit..

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable..

I tend to write about people. I look at things from the bottom up and from the perspective of outsiders. A part of me just identifies with them. It's….

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped..

I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had no idea how to….

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others ….

I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't ….

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne..

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit g….