“A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.”
“All great thinkers are initially ridiculed – and eventually revered.”
“The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.”
“Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist.”
“Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.”