The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.