I Think Book Publishing Is Fun, But

Talk When You Talk, Walk When You Walk, And Die When You Die.

To Stay Close And Intimate With Experience Is To Stay Close To The Mind; The Nitty Gritty Mind Of The Way Things Really Are.

Use Original Detail In Your Writing. Life Is So Rich, If You Can Write Down The Real Details Of The Way Things Were And Are, You Hardly Need Anything Else.

When You Write What You Know, You Stay In Control. One Of The First Things I Encourage My Writing Students To Do Is To Lose Control - Say What They Want To Say, Break Structure.

We Always Worry That We Are Copying Someone Else, That We Don't Have Our Own Style. Don't Worry. Writing Is A Communal Act. Contrary To Popular Belief, A Writer Is Not Prometheus Alone On A Hill Full Of Fire. We Are Very Arrogant To Think We Alone Have A Totally Original Mind. We Are Carried On The Backs Of All The Writers Who Came Before Us. We Live In The Present With All The History, Ideas, And Soda Pop Of This Time. It All Gets Mixed Up In Our Writing.