The act of composition is a series of discoveries.
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.
A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.