In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.