It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
A right is a responsibility in reverse.
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
The best writing is rewriting.
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
You're terrific as far as I am concerned.
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
Loneliness is a strange gift.
Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.
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