Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall — is, Is it dead or alive?

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.