Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

I am more or less reading all the time.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.