People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. |
The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better. |
Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better. |