An editor once said to me, "If I didn't know that you, a woman, had written these poems, I would like your work." And once an edit...or wrote me, "Your poems are dynamic, colorful, exciting, but too strong for a woman."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to... approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish... it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.... A message from the gods shoul...d be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honourable to which a man can be called?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »