Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.
somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.
[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.