It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

You must change your life.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.