Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.
How we learn is what we learn.
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.
our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.