Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.