The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.