It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory. . . dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.