My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

You're only reduced to a cliche if you don't humanize a character.

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.