Am wenigsten / Least Arbeit / Work Besitzen / Possessing Etwas / Some Existieren / Exist Grad / Degree Insgesamt / Altogether Kann nicht / Cannot Keine Arbeit / No Work Kunst / Art Muss / Must Ohne / Without Qualität / Quality Welche / Which Wertlos / Worthless
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive.
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
