Suppose you meet me in the woods.

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

Human life is fiction's only theme.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again