You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leave...
I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.
There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly...
We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother...
The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.
Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of different parts. - Niles.
I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
The words I love you could contain all the bloodthirsty despair of the abattoir, all the hopelessness of the most isolated, frozen gulag, all the lurid sadness of death row.
One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
As time passed from solstice to mild solstice in those occluded zones of my early childhood, I played beneath the distracted majesty of my mother's blue-eyed gaze. With her eyes on me I felt as if I w...
Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.
When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent...
The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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