Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.