When you are writing before there is an audience anything written is as important as any other thing and you cherish anything and everything that you have written. After the audience begins, naturally they create something that is they create you, and so not everything is so important, something is more important than another thing.

The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later I, nor anyone else…

Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.