Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.

The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-.