Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”
Review of One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/tick, 2018
2010s
“You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.”
"Where No Word Can Travel"
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
Variant translations:
Memory of sun fades in my heart
What is this? Darkness? Maybe! —
During the night comes
winter.
"Memory of the Sun" (alternate translation by Paula Goodman)
Thinking Of The Sun (1911)
Arnold Bennett (ed. Andrew Mylett) The Evening Standard Years (London: Chatto & Windus, 1974) pp. 357-8.
Criticism
“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read.”
Autobiographical Notes (1952)
Context: I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
