One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.