Diana Higgins

“Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”
― Nadia Boulanger

“Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.”
― Lorrie Moore

“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
― Arthur Helps