We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.
And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.
Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.