The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.