Never think you've seen the last of anything.

One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.