the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.
The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.
The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.