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I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.