“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing...”

“Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.”

“Change happens very slow and very sudden.”

“You have only to want it,to believe it, and tonight when you close your eyes, you can begin your journey”

“the dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired.”

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

“It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're past the edge, there ain't no particular reason to be graspin' for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin' anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down.”