If I'm stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn't, I still feel better.
Max Apple
Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.
Max Apple
The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.
Max Apple
I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.
Max Apple
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.