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

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

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

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.

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

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.