As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

I didn't think; I experimented.