To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Never think you've seen the last of anything.