Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.
Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.
I was always influenced by language.
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.