What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.