My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.

One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.

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

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

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.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.