I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

True love always happens in a flash.

When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.