Actually, this is just pull quotes.
"...I had omitted the real end of it which was that the old man hanged himself. This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood."
"Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about."
"I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what I was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day."
"It was in that room too that I learned not to think about anything that I was writing from the time I stopped writing until I started again the next day. That way my subconscious would be working on it and at the same time I would be listening to other people and noticing everything, I hoped; learning, I hoped; and I would read so that I would not think about my work and make myself impotent to it."
"Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would glow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains keep on and killed the spring, it was though a young person had died for no reason."
"When I stopped working on the races I was glad but it left an emptiness. By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better."
"I learned one thing" "What" "Never go on trips with someone you don't love."