1. “Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.”
2. “Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.”
3. “We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.”
4. “Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.”
5. “We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.”
6. “Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.”
7. “The human heart is a dark forest.”
8. “There is joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.”
9. “Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.”
10. “Most of us don’t live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.”
