What do any of us really know about love?

Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

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.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.