Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you’re going to do a good job with it.
Writers will be judged by what they write.
Remember Haydn’s 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
My life is going to change. I feel it.
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
Don’t complain, don’t explain.
All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.
I dressed and went for a walk – determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He’d said he’d spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.
There’s literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn’t otherwise have.
There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
You’ve got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
She won’t give him back his look.
The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon’s light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.