How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
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.