The Disinterested Imaginative Core Of

One Doesn't Bother To Believe The Credible: The Credible Is Believed Already, By Definition. There's No Adventure Of The Mind.

Literature Speaks The Language Of The Imagination, And The Study Of Literature Is Supposed To Train And Improve The Imagination.

Writing: I Certainly Do Rewrite My Central Myth In Every Book, And Would Never Read Or Trust Any Writer Who Did Not Also Do So.

The Kind Of Problem That Literature Raises Is Not The Kind That You Ever 'solve'. Whether My Answers Are Any Good Or Not, They Represent A Fair Amount Of Thinking About The Questions.

Nature Is Inside Art As Its Content, Not Outside As Its Model.