Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.