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'for the writer thinking and writing (like thinking and feeling) are synonyms'

'to deal with the written word is to deal, at the conscious level, in the future. the reader lives there'

'as a reader, consequently as a writer, I am partial to most forms of voluntary silence [...] I love that which summons (as opposed to imposes) thought'

"The fundamental experience of the writer is helplessness [...] the only real exercise of will is negative: we have toward what we write the power of veto. [...] It is a life dignified, I think, by yearning, not made serene by sensations of achievement."