“Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice. ”
“You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”
“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
“Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited...”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.”