Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.