The writer does not get from his work as he writes and reads it the same aesthetic shock that the reader does; and since the writer is so accustomed to reading other stories, and having them produce a decided effect upon him, he is disquieted at not being equally affected by his own.

We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in layi…

An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he…

You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something…

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.