The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.