I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
