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 up….

One place comprehended can make us understand other places better..

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy..

No art ever came out of not risking your neck..

When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The inse….

Write about what you don't know about what you know..

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers..

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 revel….

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths..

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away..

One place understood helps us understand all places better.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, ea….

The first act of insight is throw away the labels..

Never think you've seen the last of anything..

We are the breakers of our own hearts.

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its ….

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable….

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most..

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within..

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer..

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within..