It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.