“I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.”
“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.”
“I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.”
“Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer sensual pleasure of it. I liked that idea. It made me want to write lots of stories, to give myself that pleasure.”
“Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.”
“He's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being.”