It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.
Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.
I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
Planning to write is not writing.
A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.