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

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

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

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

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.

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