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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
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.
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
