It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.