Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

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

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

Never think you've seen the last of anything.