I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.