I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
A library is all the university you will ever need.
A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.
The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.