The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.