... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.