Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.