It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...

art is the pulse of a nation.