I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.