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

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.

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

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!