To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

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

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.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.