'Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.'
'Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.'
'How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.'
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‘If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?'