“Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.”
“Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.”
“Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.”
“The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul”
“Writing is a mysterious activity.”
“Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other.”