“Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.”

“You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.”

“And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea.”

“Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?''For fun?''Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.”

“When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me”

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”

“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”