What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

Don't give anybody up." He stroked her. "Or leave anybody out. Me and you both left her out today, and I'm ashamed for us." "There just wasn't room in today for it ... He said, "There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help."