Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.

Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.