Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.