The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

What do any of us really know about love?

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.