A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

“I'm killing time and it's dying hard.”

“It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.”

“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balance…”

“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a littl…”