My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.