“Life is a risk; so is writing. You have to love it.”

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life.

You are a second away from saying it.


You have no idea how much I love you.”

“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”

“Love and life belongs to great risk.”

“The experience was an exciting one for me. It illustrated that writing was about risk—about risking everything. And that the value of the writing is not in what you publish but in its consequences. If you set out to describe reality, then the influence of the writing is upon reality.”

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

“Does the new heroine mean your son won’t have to risk his life for her love?”

“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”

“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”