Nonfiction Is Easy And Fiction Is Hard.

Praise And Criticism Seem To Me To Operate Exactly On The Same Level. If You Get A Great Review, It's Really Thrilling For About Ten Minutes. If You Get A Bad Review, It's Really Crushing For Ten Minutes. Either Way, You Go On.

You Can't Be A Good Person When You're Writing And A Bad Person To Your Husband Or A Bad Friend.

That Was The Way Things Worked. When You Were Looking For The Big Fight, The Moment That You Thought Would Knock Everything Over, Nothing Much Happened At All.

When I Am Emperor, I Will Abolish Private Education. Private Schools, Private College. All Of These Parents With Money And Energy And The Drive For Bake Sales And A Desire To Leave Their Vast Fortunes To Education - Everybody Would Have To Be Eating Out Of The Same Educational Pot.

When Well Told, A Story Captured The Subtle Movement Of Change. If A Novel Was A Map Of A Country, A Story Was The Bright Silver Pin That Marked The Crossroads.