I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.
They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.
This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.
I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?
The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.
America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.
Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?
People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.
