I soon learned that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must write write write.

To be generous is to say yes before the man even opens his mouth.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

The frantic desire to Live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us , but of the death rhythm.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's …

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.