“If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.”
“Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.”
“In my experience there are few people who are of true genius. There are many who are gifted, but most of the world's work and great things come from ordinary people with a talent which they develop.”
“If you've never worked for an angry or a jealous woman then you have never truly experienced the full plethora and bouquet of the working experience.”
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
“All of the human emotions and experiences are right there in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized.”