“Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.”

“I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.”

“You're not me. You can't feel like I feel.""I can feel.""No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine.""It's not fine. It's just not so bad.”

“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment.”

“It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.”

“You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.”