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.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

Suppose you meet me in the woods.

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.

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.

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.