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.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.