"Never does one open the discussion by coming right to the heart of the matter. For the heart of the matter is always …"

"Time and space are not something entirely exterior to oneself, something that one has, keeps, saves, wastes, or loses."

"The story circulates like a gift; an empty gift which anybody can lay claim to by filling it to taste, yet can never …"

"As our elder Lao Tzu used to say, knowing ignorance is strength, ignoring knowledge is sickness; if one is sick of si…"

"A story is not just a story. Once the forces have been aroused and set into motion, they can’t simply be stopped at s…"

"Substantial creative achievement demands not necessarily genius, but acumen, bent, persistence, time."

"S/he who writes, writes. In uncertainty, in necessity. And does not ask whether s/he is given the permission to do so…"

"To capture a publisher’s attention, to convince, to negotiate: these constitute one step forward into the world of wr…"

"Good writing is thus differentiated from bad writing through a building up of skill and vocabulary and a perfecting o…"

"The task of criticism is to bring to light the enigmatic content of a work by reestablishing the ties between it and …"