[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.