I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

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

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

Beware of a man with manners.

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

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.