I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

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

Human life is fiction's only theme.

Out of love you can speak with straight fury.