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

Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.

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

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

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.