All Writing Is Dreaming

A Writer - And, I Believe, Generally All Persons - Must Think That Whatever Happens To Him Or Her Is A Resource. All Things Have Been Given To Us For A Purpose, And An Artist Must Feel This More Intensely. All That Happens To Us, Including Our Humiliations, Our Misfortunes, Our Embarrassments, All Is Given To Us As Raw Material, As Clay, So That We May Shape Our Art.

Time, Which Despoils Castles, Enriches Verses.

I Never Reread What I've Written. I'm Far Too Afraid To Feel Ashamed Of What I've Done.

I Think Of Reading A Book As No Less An Experience Than Travelling Or Falling In Love.

Reading Is An Activity Subsequent To Writing: More Resigned, More Civil, More Intellectual.