“The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, so long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were. All you have to do – and watch this carefully, please – is keep writing. So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”

“The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, so long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were. All you have to do – and watch this carefully, please – is keep writing. So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”

— Ruth Franklin