When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Men must know their limitations.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

Praise God we don't have to hide scars

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.

I am glad you are come. When I was in England I desired that some one would speak the Great Word to me. I will go up and speak to the wise men of our nation, and I hope they will hear.