 All serious daring starts from within. |
| Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. |
| Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. |
| Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. |
| A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. |
| It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. |
| Beware of a man with manners. |
| The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. |
| A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. |
| I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. |
| To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. |
| Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. |
| Never think you've seen the last of anything. |
| The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. |
| Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame. |
