I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Novel writing wrecks homes.