Use Your Power Gently.

Everyone Deserves To Be The Hero Of A Novel.

We Read To Know That We Are Not Alone.

Madly, Futilely, I Wrote Novel After Novel, Eight In All, That Failed To Find A Publisher. I Persisted Because For Me The Novel Was The Supreme Literary Form: Not Just One Among Many, Not A Relic Of The Past, But The Way We Communicate To One Another The Subtlest Truths About This Business Of Living.

A Well-off Plastic Surgeon Can Suffer Just As Much As An Irish Lad Who Has Been Abused Or Whatever.

Self-sufficiency Is The Enemy Of Salvation. If You Are Self-sufficient, You Have No Need Of God. If You Have No Need Of God, You Do Not Seek Him. If You Do Not Seek Him, You Will Not Find Him.