About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.