Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.