“I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.”
“I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.”
“I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.”
“Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.”
“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.”