The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuatio...n or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For weeks or months they moved through their separate lives and slept side by side as though they were two strangers who had mista...kenly been assigned the same hotel room. And then something would happen and he would find himself staring at her as though he could see the soul of her, looking for an end to his troubles inside the loop of her arms, and he would be snagged with the fishhook of herself, with the barbed hook of his powerless infatuation with something that she seemed to have, some answer that she seemed to offer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It needed the heavy nights of drenching weather To make him return to people, to find among them... Whatever it was that he found in their absence, A pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I became increasingly anarchistic. I began to find people of my own class vicious, people in clean collars uninteresting. I even a...ccepted smells, personal as well as official. Everyone who came to the studio smelled either of machine oil or herring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.--requiescat in pace--you know. That seems to me the most beautiful ex...pression--I like it much better than 'He is a jolly good fellow,' which is simply rowdy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night;... Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you, in my respect, are all the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »