I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society...
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose...
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between...
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are...
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
When I remember my family I always remember their backs. They were always...
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and...
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And...
I have two ideas for novels at the moment neither of them all that...
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people...
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have...
I can support going in after Saddam Hussein but I want to make sure I don't...
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday let alone 10 years ago.