A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.