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We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.
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Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
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We can and do control the direction of our own evolution.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.
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The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power from on high that comes down into the world, that wells up from the rock-bottom worst of the world like a hidden spring. Can you believe it? The last, best thing is the laughing deep in the hearts of the saints, sometimes our hearts even. Yes. You are terribly loved and forgiven. Yes. You are healed. All is well.
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If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they are and what they do.. I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside, or worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them.
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Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
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I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be.
