I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.
I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them
When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell
I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
Death swallows death.
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.