There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.