In creating a situation in which they could nurture and rear infants safely

Believe it or not, after fifty years as a fiction writer, I’ve been asking myself that question lately.  Where, indeed, do stories come from?  And that question is immediately followed by another, “Where do I find my next one?”

My work in general is not divided into illustration or anything else.

Remember how long you have procrastinated,

There is no mystery greater than our own mystery.

I always forget how important the empty days are,

I don’t like hopeless books.

I don't have to tell you, one never snaps one's fingers on the beat.

I promise to see you with new eyes each day

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance

I would write ads …

“If you want to be happy, be.”      That line by the great Tolstoy intrigues me. It intrigues me, especially for all it doesn’t say.

Every artist joins a conversation

The natural warmth that emerges when we experience pain

Careful writers can tinker forever

A title is of practical use to an author.

As a young man, I was often told that I was a daydreamer