As You Get Older, You Don't Get

People Are Just Cannibals Unless They Leave Each Other Alone.

Most Novels, If They Are Successful At All, Are Original In The Sense That They Report The Existence Of An Area Of Society, A Type Of Person, Not Yet Admitted To The General Literate Consciousness.

How Boring These Emotions Are That We're Caught In And Can't Get Free Of, No Matter How Much We Want To.

When A Book's Pattern And The Shape Of Its Inner Life Is As Plain To The Reader As It Is To The Author -- Then Perhaps It Is Time To Throw The Book Aside, As Having Had Its Day, And Start Again On Something New.

In The Writing Process, The More A Story Cooks, The Better.