And I Think That's Important,

In A Rough Way The Short Story Writer Is To The Novelist As A Cabinetmaker Is To A House Carpenter.

I Think It's Important To Leave Spaces In A Story For Readers To Fill In From Their Own Experience.

Wonderful ... I Was Up All Night Reading It, Laughing And Crying Out In Horror.

Walking On The Land Or Digging In The Fine Soil I Am Intensely Aware That Time Quivers Slightly, Changes Occurring In Imperceptible And Minute Ways, Accumulating So Subtly That They Seem Not To Exist. Yet The Tiny Shifts In Everything--cell Replication, The Rain Of Dust Motes, Lengthening Hair, Wind-pushed Rocks--press Inexorably On And On.

A Spinning Coin, Still Balanced On Its Rim, May Fall In Either Direction.