But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And all that must be somewhere; all that could not have been invented and create...
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what...
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
now i can get them teeth
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
Who gathers the withered rose?
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Te...
Well, Bud, he said, looking at me, I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?
Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world.
It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally...
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
I am not one of those women who can stand things.
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.