That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

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

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.

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.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.