“ Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be. ”
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
~ Nadine Gordimer
The creative act is not pure.
They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from all time.
I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
