There's A Lot Of Landscape

People With Self-respect Exhibit A Certain Toughness, A Kind Of Moral Nerve; They Display What Was Once Called *character,* A Quality Which, Although Approved In The Abstract, Sometimes Loses Ground To The Other, More Instantly Negotiable Virtues.... Character--the Willingness To Accept Responsibility For One's Own Life--is The Source From Which Self-respect Springs.

Memory Fades, Memory Adjusts, Memory Conforms To What We Think We Remember.

It Is Easy To See The Beginnings Of Things, And Harder To See The Ends.

Short Stories Demand A Certain Awareness Of One's Own Intentions, A Certain Narrowing Of The Focus.

Details Are Our Business As Writers. Your Heart Leaps When You See A Detail That Can Go Somewhere