Agony without genius was gaucherie.
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
The novel is rescued life.
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.