Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable s….

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend..

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say..

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself..

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of hi….

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise..

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams..

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs..

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know..

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enh….

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride..

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you..

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack i….

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something..

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'.

A man had to learn, it was his nature..

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear..

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in th….

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game..

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them..