Mark

“Everyone carries a room about inside him.”
― Franz Kafka

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment.”
― John Fowles, The Ebony Tower. Eliduc. The Enigma

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
― Don DeLillo

“Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence.”
― Irving Howe, A Critic's Notebook