The despairing soul is a rebel.

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.