We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur. . . . We want Americans to eat fewer animals
When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it. . . . The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.
I'm a little obsessed with being competitive.