The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.