A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.
Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.
... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.
A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.
I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.