That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
All literature is gossip.
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote