The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
A cat has absolute honesty.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
