. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name? Votes: 0
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. Votes: 0
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. Votes: 0
When you feel homesick,â he said, âjust look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go. Votes: 0
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. Votes: 0
The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work. Votes: 0
If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness. Votes: 0
Beauty alters the grain of reality, Votes: 0
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work Votes: 0
I really do work in solitude. Votes: 0
Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way. Votes: 0