A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.
If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.
While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.
Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.
We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.
I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.
In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basi...
When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending---I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters.
