Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.