“The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”
“The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service”
“Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did not qualify as "real work.”
“Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.”
“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”
“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking,and an art of writing.”