“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
“The only true measure of courage is perseverance under pressure.”
“Grace under pressure.”
“By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure”
“The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn...”