So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

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

Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.