Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
... 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.