No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us feel we have a book inside us. It isn't an illusion. We have got a book inside us.

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.