Sometimes I catch myself feeling that some writers, perhaps even the best and the brightest, were initially attracted to writing because they loved to write, or, for our purposes, to draw letters. Again, take Agnon. I've always felt that this man is a slave to his worship of letters, just letters, for their own sake. And if the letters join into words, the words into sentences and the sentences into wonderful stories, and also into books that made history, all this is of course important and interesting, but affects me less than that initial love of letters.(from a conversation with Yona Fisher, "Kav 6")