Write From What You Know

My Job Is To Get People To Write Something Truthful, Something About Truth And Beauty - Wherever They Are - And To Understand How Literature Is Made. And Then If They Become Great Writers, That's Great, And Probably Has Nothing To Do With Me.

It's A Terrible Thing To Die Young. Still, It Saves A Lot Of Time.

I've Started Many Novels, And They All Ended On Page Seven.

I Begin By Writing Paragraphs That Don’t Have An Immediate Relation To A Plot. The Sound Of The Story Comes First.

I Was A Fantastic Student Until Ten, And Then My Mind Began To Wander.