If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

I'm not a great writer.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

You become a great writer by writing.

Sean's a great, great writer.