If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.