Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

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

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

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.