Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

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.

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

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

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.