Writers Should Provoke Disagreement.

After All, We Make Ourselves According To The Ideas We Have Of Our Possibilities.

The World Outside Existed In A Kind Of Darkness; And We Inquired About Nothing.

I've Never Abandoned The Novel.

It Is Important Not To Trust People Too Much.

I Wish My Prose To Be Transparent—i Don't Want The Reader To Stumble Over Me; I Want Him To Look Through What I'm Saying To What I'm Describing. I Don't Want Him Ever To Say, Oh, Goodness, How Nicely Written This Is. That Would Be A Failure.