Cleverness Is A Disease.

Cleverness Is A Disease.

Every Piece Of Writing Starts From What I Call A Grit A Sight Or Sound, A Sentence Or Happening That Does Not Pass Away But Quite Inexplicably Lodges In The Mind.

I Suppose The More You Have To Do, The More You Learn To Organize And Concentrate-or Else Get Fragmented Into Bits. I Have Learned To Use My 'ten Minutes'. I Once Thought It Was Not Worth Sitting Down For A Time As Short As That; Now I Know Differently And, If I Have Ten Minutes, I Use Them, Even If They Bring Only Two Lines, And It Keeps The Book Alive.

When You Learn To Read You Will Be Born Again...and You Will Never Be Quite So Alone Again.

Most Grown People Are Like Icebergs, Three-tenths Showing, Seven-tenths Submerged - That Is Why A Collision With One Of Them Is Unexpectedly Hurtful.