I don’t think of literature as an end in itself. It’s just a way of communicating something.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.