Occupation: Novelist Birth: June 14, 1933 Death: May 3, 1991
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author..
I am curious about grownups, not children..
It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself..
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its….
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky..
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all..
When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely..
Life is a state of mind..
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke..
Take a look at the books other people have in their homes..
You don't die in the United States, you underachieve..
I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them..
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library..
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass..
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant..
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one..
Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us..
Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them..
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or tran….
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening..
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership..