“Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.”
“ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”
“Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too.”
“It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.”
“You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing — grinding, buffing, and polishing — not writing.”
“life was a stone cutting and grinding...”