Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.
What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.