Sometimes Allah Punishes And Sometimes Men Have

It Seems To Me Now That The Deep Structures [in Writing] Are Often Subconscious And Set In Childhood.

The Very Reason I Write Is So That I Might Not Sleepwalk Through My Entire Life.

I Recognize Myself To Be An Intensely Naive Person. Most Novelists Are, Despite Frequent Pretensions To Deep Socio-political Insight.

My Short Stories Have Always Pushed Twenty Pages. That's No Length For A Short Story To Be. You Either Do Them Short Like Carver Or You Stop Trying.

[george Saunders] Is Very Precise About What He Is Doing. There Isn't A Thing Left To Chance.