I would rather be dead than not read

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.