From The Writer’s Life:
On inspiration:
“I am going to write because I cannot help it.”
—Charlotte Brontë
On fame:
“I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.”
—John Cheever
On sex:
“In petting there is no Mason-Dixon Line.”
—Delmore Schwartz
On keeping a journal:
“Writing in a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.”
—George Sand