"If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as yo…"

"The mind can be a dark and scary place, but it can also be a beautiful and wondrous one."

"Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's."

"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'One word at a time,' and the answer is always true."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."