The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.