Short Stories Demand A Certain Awareness Of

In The Absence Of A Natural Disaster We Are Left Again To Our Own Uneasy Devices.

New York Is Full Of People . . . With A Feeling For The Tangential Adventure, The Risky Adventure, The Interlude That's Not Likely To End In Any Double-ring Ceremony.

I Can't Imagine Writing If I Didn't Have A Reader. Any More Than An Actor Can Imagine Acting Without An Audience.

It Occurs To Me That We Allow Ourselves To Imagine Only Such Messages As We Need To Survive.

I Always Want Everything Read In One Sitting. If They Can't Read It In One Sitting, You're Going To Lose The Rhythm Of It. You're Going To Lose The Shape Of It.