All serious daring starts from within.
A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
One place understood helps us understand all places better.
I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or to be read to.
The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.