Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.