The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.