Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

I was always my own teacher.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.

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

One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.