You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.
Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
A writer should always feel like he's in over his head