Vonnegut said, When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below.

grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy because she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the sort of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue...

And I'd stand there trying to see it, the way you try to remember a dream, where you squint and it's right there on the tip of your psychic tongue but you can't get it back. The image is gone. That is...

However, in the meantime, we are going to concentrate on writing itself, on how to become a better writer, because, for one thing, becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader,...

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do-you can either type or kill yourself.

writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.}

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it.

They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published. You'll never get to where you want to be that way, I tell them.

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

Gratitude is peace.

perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force

She walked to the front door. 'Hello?''Hello,' a woman's voice said.'Are you a Witness?''I swear to God I didn't see a thing.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. I

it may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.