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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - "Meglio scrivere per se stessi e non avere un pubbl...more

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.

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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.