Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
I believe all literature started as gossip.
Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.