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

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

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

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.