Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. If something happens where I live, you see it tomorrow or perhaps even at the same time it is happening there. It's not "one world" in the sense that conflicts are resolved in the world. But we are more one world in that we know what is going on and are psychologically influenced by what goes on around us.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.