What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.