I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
Things are not what they seem.
He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.