“I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.”
“It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. Ichose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.”
“Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work. ”
“There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius, wit and taste to recommend them.”
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
“I trust only you and the dark always to look at me so honestly.”