You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.