“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.”
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
