What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
The novel is rescued life.
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
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.