Planning to write is not writing.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.