One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

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

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

I was always my own teacher.

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.