“[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.”

“But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than thos...”

“But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.”

“No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.”

“When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottl...”

“...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”