The Act Of Longing For

I Believe That Dreams Transport Us Through The Underside Of Our Days, And That If We Wish To Become Acquainted With The Dark Side Of What We Are, The Signposts Are There, Waiting For Us To Translate Them.

I Work Continuously Within The Shadow Of Failure. For Every Novel That Makes It To My Publisher's Desk, There Are At Least Five Or Six That Died On The Way. And Even With The Ones I Do Finish, I Think Of All The Ways They Might Have Been Better.

Good Teaching Is One-fourth Preparation And Three-fourths Pure Theatre.

Much Of The Activity We Think Of As Writing Is, Actually, Getting Ready To Write.

None Of Us Suddenly Becomes Something Overnight. The Preparations Have Been In The Making For Lifetime.