It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
The novel is rescued life.
The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.