The horror of uncreative solitude..... - Max Frisch

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself

What makes Shakespeare so overwhelming is the way in which the situation (who is confronting whom) is usually itself part of the composition, meaningful already as a situation