We Are All Good Friends.

Writers Are Not Just People Who Sit Down And Write. They Hazard Themselves. Every Time You Compose A Book Your Composition Of Yourself Is At Stake.

My Memories Pale As I Prevail Upon Them Again And Again. They Become More And More Ghostly. I Fear Nothing So Much As Losing Them Altogether And Having Only My Blank Endless Mind To Live In.

If You Feel A Bump On Page One Hundred, It May Be You Went Off On Page Fifty.

And So The Ordinary Unendurable Torments We All Experienced Were Indeed Exceptional In The Way They Were Absorbed In Each Heart.

One Of The Things I Had To Learn As A Writer Was To Trust The Act Of Writing. To Put Myself In The Position Of Writing To Find Out What I Was Writing. I Did That With 'world's Fair' As With All Of Them. The Inventions Of The Book Come As Discoveries.