But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

Anyway, it gets into one's blood, this long lonely way of writing, like a long sea-voyage.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

I regard criticism as an art, and if in this country and in this age it is practiced with honesty, it is no more remunerative than the work of an avant-garde f…

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all - what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to s…

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.