"I did not know that for a man who wants to continue with the creative life, to keep on growing and developing, this cheerful idea of happy establishment, of continuing now as one has started, is nothing but a delusion and a snare. I did not know that if a man really has in him the desire and capacity to create, the power of further growth and further development, there can be no such thing as an easy road. I did not kow that so far from having found out about writing, I had really found out almost nothing...I had made a first and simple utterance, but I did not know that each succeeding one would not only be...more difficult than the last, but would be completely different, that from each new effort would come new desperation, the new, and old, sense of having to begin from the beginning all over again, of being face to face again with the old naked facts of self and work, of realizing again that there is no help anywhere save the help and strength that one can find within himself."
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