The Art Of Fiction Is Freedom Of

When Something Does Not Insist On Being Noticed, When We Aren't Grabbed By The Collar Or Struck On The Skull By A Presence Or An Event, We Take For Granted The Very Things That Most Deserve Our Gratitude.

I Would Distinguish Between A Visitor And A Pilgrim: Both Will Come To A Place And Go Away Again, But A Visitor Arrives, A Pilgrim Is Restored. A Visitor Passes Through A Place; The Place Passes Through The Pilgrim.

Literature Is An Instrument Of A Culture, Not A Summary Of It.

Time Heals All Things But One: Time.

To Be Any Sort Of Competent Writer One Must Keep One's Psychological Distance From The Supreme Artists.