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

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

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

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.