I Don't Write A Quick Draft And

Nothing Gives Us Courage More Readily Than The Desire To Avoid Looking Like A Damn Fool.

Each Reader Needs To Bring His Or Her Own Mind And Heart To The Text.

Britney: You In A Fight? Odd: No, It's An Employment-related Fork Wound.

I've Got A Long List Of Books I Wish I'd Never Written-and I've Kept Them All Out Of Print For The Past 20 Years.

I Have More Self-doubt Than Any Writer I've Ever Known.... The Positive Aspect Of Self-doubt - If You Can Channel It Into Useful Activity Instead Of Being Paralyzed By It - Is That By The Time You Reach The End Of A Novel, You Know Precisely Why You Made Every Decision In The Narrative, The Multiple Purposes Of Every Metaphor And Image.