No one can tell another man is true. Truth is all around us...Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity. - Gore Vidal

Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.

Since they did not understand one another, each was able to sustain an illusion about the other, which was the usual beginning of love, if not truth.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.