The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination. |
Everything we do has consequences. |
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? |
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe. |
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. |
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. |
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. |
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. |
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. |
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent. |
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. |