There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.