Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
“The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.”
“We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.”