she could do things when her body was busy that she could at no other time, things like assemble her worries into ranks, each rank commanded by a hop… - John Crowley

"It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said.

'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to say again, and unable to resist saying, that 'Dumas, I think it was Dumas, some terrifically prolific Frenchman, said that writing novels is a simple matter - if you write one page a day, you'll write one novel a year, two pages a day, two novels a year, three pages, three novels, and so on. And how long does it take to cover a page with writing? Twenty minutes? An hour? So you see. Very easy really.'

'I don't know,' she said, laughing. 'I can't even bring myself to write a letter.'

'Oh, now that's hard.'
("Novelty")"

Violet always said that in her part of England a single eyebrow marked you as a violent, criminal person, possibly a maniac.

We're made of stories now, brother. It's why we never die even if we do.