32 Quotes About Early-work

You are . . . depressed? Bored?""Are there other feelings?

What do you actually care about?""People," I said."All right, E.M. Forster.

I don't even like most people.

I don't care about my life.

Julia's defining quality, maybe, was her combination of outer normality, even placidity, and a roiling, crazily volatile inner life that expressed itself mainly in her writing.

What happens at the end of a story? Something changes, or it doesn't. I like it best when things just stop.

I wanted to understand her. I wanted her, more dubiously, to understand me.

But it was true that I preferred to do nothing.

My hope, as always, was that someone else would make the decision for me, absolve me of the little responsibility I had.