It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Those who marry God can become domesticated too-it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word 'Love' means a formal touch of the lips as in the …

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. Perhaps the c…

I think I'd most like to spend a day with Harry. I'd take him out for a meal and apologize for everything I've put him through.

To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know …

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that …