Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.
[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.
Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.
Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.