How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.