What Literature Can And Should Do Is

I Hated Being A Novelist When I Was 20 - I Had Nothing To Write About.

I Am A Creature Of My Pen. My Pen Is The Best Of Me.

There Are Many Ways Of Writing Badly About Painting... There Is An 'appreciative' Language Of Threadbare, Not Inaccurate, But Overexposed And Irritating Words... The Language Of The Schools Which 'situates' Works And Artists In Schools And Movements... Novelists And Poets [that] See Paintings As Allegories Of Writing.

I Think The Virtue I Prize Above All Others Is Curiosity. If You Look Really Hard At Almost Anybody, And Try To See Why They're Doing What They're Doing, Taking A Dig At Them Ceases To Be What You Want To Do Even If You Hate Them.

An Odd Phrase, "by Heart," He Would Add, As Though Poems Were Stored In The Bloodstream.