. . . I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.
our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.
Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.
How we learn is what we learn.
For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.
It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.