I always react to news immediately. That's my business.
My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis. . . Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.
Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.
To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.
The best way to preserve a child’s vision is to let them see things their way rather than yours.
If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.
There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.