“Writing is not some quiet, closet act.”

“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”

“The elements I need to write are a place, a desk, a familiar room. I need some of my books there, I need quiet. … I'm picturing as I'm writing. I'm putting together what I need to have this thing alive.”

“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.”

“Writing is the act of discovery.”

“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”

“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”

“The management’s method of procedure is evidently to hire some well-known man to write the book, and then, as soon as it is written, to give it away to some deserving family, and go out and engage an assortment of specialty acts. p. 151”

“I have left Act I, for involution
And Act II. There, mired in complexity
I cannot write Act III.”

“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day- like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”