“The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself.”
“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
“...the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”
“the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat”
“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”
“The human heart, no matter what age, will only open to the heart that opens in return.”