“So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms ...” — Kate DiCamillo Quote

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot of things.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

In a first draft, I concentrate on moving forward and trying not to panic.

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.

I hate to cook and love to eat.

I can do things with my arms that make guys throw up sometimes.

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

It doesn't matter how scary someone may seem - they have two legs, two arms and a heartbeat just like me. There's no reason why I wouldn't want to fight anybody.

In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.

Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.