“Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.”
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.