The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can ….

A pretty sight, a lady with a book..

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it..

In the country of the story the writer is king..

Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals..

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.….

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing….

Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people th….

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cann….

I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles..

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dr….

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?.

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone o….

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by t….

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality..

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are re….

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls..

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something..

I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and w….

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you..

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and w….