I Always Try To Make

The First Chapter Law Is, "don't Spend Much Time On It. You're Going To Have To Rewrite It."

The Essays In The Great Taos Bank Robbery Were My Project To Win A Master Of Arts Degree In English When I Quit Being A Newspaper Editor And Went Back To College.

A Writer Is Like A Bag Lady Going Through Life With A Sack And A Pointed Stick Collecting Stuff.

You Write For Two People, Yourself And Your Audience, Who Are Usually Better Educated And At Least As Smart.

Thoughts, And Words That Spring From Them, Bend The Individual's Reality. To Speak Of Death Is To Invite It. To Think Of Sorrow Is To Produce It.