Quote of the Day

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."