I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.
...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.