We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.