Literature Quotes
Publishing a volume of verse [is] like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
There’s nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.
A person`s never too old for stories [...]. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.
Everyone wants an exciting life, but most people are afraid to take the bull by the horns. So they take an easy option for an exciting life. They live their excitement through other people.
A classic rule of writing and editing: when writing, don` t hesitate to include something; when editing, don` t hesitate to throw it out.
The problem is that bad writers tend to have the self-confidence, while the good ones tend to have self-doubt.
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.