My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to...
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual...
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly caught in the...
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
And in real life endings aren't always neat whether they're happy endings...
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing economics...
I love the movies and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of...
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge a place where...
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until...
Well I'm like a drug addict I'm always saying I'm going to stop and then I...
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in...
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital and cried. I knew...
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate....
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons and quite often the bad...
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that...
And poets in my view and I think the view of most people do speak God's...
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of...
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
I guess when you turn off the main road you have to be prepared to see some...
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had...
When his life was ruined his family killed his farm destroyed Job knelt...
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's...
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of...
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is...
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in it's all there at least the...
Like anything else that happens on its own the act of writing is beyond...
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get...
