Making reality real is art's responsibility.
I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.
The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.