I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over....

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.