If You Can't Fix It,

And It May Be That Love Sometimes Occurs Without Pain Or Misery.

If You Get The Landscape Right, The Characters Will Step Out Of It, And They'll Be In The Right Place.

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

What I Find To Be Very Bad Advice Is The Snappy Little Sentence, 'write What You Know.' It Is The Most Tiresome And Stupid Advice That Could Possibly Be Given. If We Write Simply About What We Know We Never Grow. We Don't Develop Any Facility For Languages, Or An Interest In Others, Or A Desire To Travel And Explore And Face Experience Head-on. We Just Coil Tighter And Tighter Into Our Boring Little Selves. What One Should Write About Is What Interests One.

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