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

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.

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

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

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.