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

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.

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

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.