Gardening Is The Instrument Of

Women Are At Last Becoming Persons First And Wives Second, And That Is As It Should Be.

My Own Feeling Is That The Only Possible Reason For Engaging In The Hard Labor Of Writing A Novel, Is That One Is Bothered By Something One Needs To Understand, And Can Come To Understand Only Through The Characters In The Imagined Situation.

There Is A Proper Balance Between Not Asking Enough Of Oneself And Asking Or Expecting Too Much.

Pain Can Make A Whole Winter Bright, Like Fever, Force Us To Live Deep And Hard.

It Takes A Long Time For Words To Become Thought.