Self Knowledge Is Always Bad News.

If You Are A Novelist Of A Certain Type Of Termperament, Then What You Really Want To Do Is Re-invent The World. God Wasn't Too Bad A Novelist Except He Was A Realist.

Every Artist Joins A Conversation That's Been Going On For Generations, Even Millennia, Before He Or She Joins The Scene.

It Is Often Pleasant To Stone A Martyr, No Matter How Much We May Admire Him.

I Admire Writers Who Can Make Complicated Things Simple, But My Own Talent Has Been To Make Simple Things Complicated.

It's Easier And Sociabler To Talk Technique Than It Is To Make Art.