"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
"you must not come lightly to the blank page."
"If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?"
"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
"The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way."