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

Novel writing wrecks homes.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

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.

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.