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

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

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.

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

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

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

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