Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.

There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.